(Click on the picture in the article) Among the highlights: for four days on the anniversary of the Tienanmen Square massacre, the government simply ordered Internet portals to shut down “for maintenance”.
A 40000 strong brigade of Internet police monitor internet activity by Chinese citizens, and that half a million websites have been blocked. Then, among the words censored by the country’s web filters: “Democracy”, “Dalai Lama”, “Oppression”, “Human Rights”.
Speaking of words and web filters, Shashi Tharoor’s had to move his website to tharoor.in – the previous domain name shashitharoor.com was often blocked because it contained the letters “shit”.
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